By Guest Post on Jun 02, 2020 11:20 am
 “Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence,” the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde said of the president. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump had police violently disperse peaceful protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets on Monday night so he could threaten to deploy the military to U.S. cities from the [...]
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By Guest Post on Jun 02, 2020 10:00 am
 If there ever was a clear cut case for human rights abuse, it is the ongoing and pervasive disregard for communities of color by the police and concomitant prison-judicial complex in America. (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress News) Over the past few months, the latest in a long history of extrajudicial killings of Black Americans has [...]
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By Alec Pronk on Jun 02, 2020 09:00 am
 Despite the threats from the President and members of Congress, the number of nationwide protests increased with over 350 cities holding demonstrations. After another day of police brutality and increasing pressure from Trump and his Republican counterparts, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer issued a short and vapid statement. Primarily, Pelosi and [...]
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By Thom Hartmann on Jun 02, 2020 05:00 am
 When you tell people they won’t be held accountable for their actions, it almost always ends badly. That’s what’s happened with our police and our social media, two institutional pillars of personal and political society in America today. Removing those dual immunities could dramatically change—for the better—the lives of millions of Americans. For police, the [...]
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By Guest Post on Jun 01, 2020 08:29 pm
 “Trump is rejecting the rule of law and proposing military action that is antithetical to basic premises of the American experiment.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump on Monday evening threatened to use the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy the U.S. military to the nation’s city streets if unrest over the killing [...]
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By Guest Post on Jun 01, 2020 01:59 pm
 “What we found is consistent with what people saw. There is no other health issue that could cause or contribute to the death.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) The family of George Floyd, whose killing on May 25 by four Minneapolis police officers has set off an unprecedented nationwide protest movement, released on Monday the [...]
The post ‘The Tragic Cause of This Death Is Incredibly Clear’: Independent Autopsy Finds George Floyd Death Result of ‘Sustained Forceful Pressure’ appeared first on Citizen Truth.
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By Daniel Davis on Jun 01, 2020 01:48 pm
 “When the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, made public her plans to bring a case to the court last year, the US revoked her visa as punishment.” The International Criminal Court is set to begin investigating the US for the first time since it began operating in 2002. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushed [...]
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By Phillip Smith on Jun 01, 2020 11:00 am
 When, in mid-May, House Democrats rolled out the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (Heroes) Act, H.R. 6800, as the latest congressional response to the coronavirus pandemic, they also included a handful of criminal justice and drug policy reforms in the broad-ranging $3 trillion bill. Most of those reforms are aimed at shrinking the prison [...]
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By Alec Pronk on Jun 01, 2020 08:12 am
 Despite repressive curfews and police brutality, chants of “No Justice, No Peace” ring around the country. This weekend’s images of police brutality and militarized police across the nation solidified America’s status as a full-blown police state. The list of video footage and images of police officers instigating citizens and indiscriminately deploying violence to quell protests [...]
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By David Swanson on Jun 01, 2020 07:01 am
 The war on Vietnam plays an infinitely larger role in history in the common understanding of a typical U.S. citizen than does what the U.S. government did to Indonesia in 1965-1966. But if you read The Jakarta Method, the new book by Vincent Bevins, you will have to wonder what moral basis there can possibly [...]
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By Guest Post on Jun 01, 2020 05:00 am
 While some in media have condemned the protests as violent “looters” imposing “tyranny” upon the country, much of the violence is being deliberately instigated and propagated by an out of control police force that appears to have gone berserk over the widespread public challenge to their authority and their impunity to act as they wish. (By: [...]
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